Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/jxxf">John Feminella</a>, Technical Advisor at Pivotal, tells your cohosts <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark</a> about unikernels: what they are, how they relate to containers, and why they are all the hype in cloud computing.</p> <h5 id="about-john">About John</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/jxxf">John Feminella</a> is an avid technologist, occasional public speaker, and curiosity advocate. He serves as an advisor to Pivotal, where he works on helping enterprises transform the way they write, operate, and deploy software. He’s also the cofounder of a tiny analytics monitoring and reporting startup named UpHex.</p> <p>He works with unikernels experimentally and is very interested in their application to platforms of the future.</p> <p>John lives in Charlottesville, VA and likes meta-jokes, milkshakes, and referring to himself in the third person in speaker bios.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Firebase expands to become a unified app platform <a href="https://firebase.googleblog.com/2016/05/firebase-expands-to-become-unified-app-platform.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Open source demos from Instrument: <a href="https://github.com/Instrument/query-it">Query It!</a> and <a href="https://github.com/Instrument/emotobooth">Emotobooth</a></li> <li>Google Cloud I/O talks <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqJYl6ZPwwd7OM4Wt_SJsBHs"> playlist</a></li> <li>Firebase I/O talks <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl-K7zZEsYLlAyGS6_paVoGJ9YKC7J3NN"> playlist</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interviews">Interviews</h5> <ul> <li>container.camp SF: Unikernels: Practical Advice for Juggling Chainsaws <a href="https://youtu.be/rV6FZZY2jUM">video</a></li> <li>Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System <a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628">ACM</a></li> <li><a href="http://unikernel.org">http://unikernel.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/amirmc">Amir Chaudhry</a> talk at Craft Conf <a href="http://amirchaudhry.com/craftconf2016">notes</a></li> <li>Unikernel on Google Compute Engine: Running an OSv Unikernel Tomcat Server <a href="https://medium.com/google-cloud/unikernel-on-google-compute-engine-part-1-running-an-osv-unikernel-tomcat-server-45bd9816910#.2emn2c2k3"> medium</a></li> <li><a href="https://mirage.io/">MirageOS</a>, a unikernel for <a href="https://ocaml.org/">OCaml</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun">RumpRun</a> supports other languages like C, C++, Go, Javascript, Python, etc.</li> <li>Unikernels are unfit for production <a href="https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-production">blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <ul> <li>How can I generate <a href="https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/">Google Cloud Deployment Manager</a> files from my current architecture? <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/deploymentmanager-samples/tree/master/tools/genconfig"> GitHub</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <ul> <li>Mark will then be at <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/ChangeTheGameSummit-SF_Registration.html"> Change the Game SF</a></li> <li>Francesc will be riding the <a href="http://www.aidslifecycle.org/">AIDS/Lifecycle</a> and if you want you can <a href="http://campoy.cat/alc">donate</a>.</li> </ul>
